March topic: user-contributed metadata

The next meeting of the Metadata Discussion Group will be on Tuesday, March 6th. Library staff, SLIS faculty and students, and those on campus interested in the topic are welcome to attend.

This month, it’s all about metadata from our users! User-contributed metadata, or social metadata, is being explored as one way to help citizens engage with collections and participate in a conversation about cultural memory. OCLC’s series of reports, “Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs),” conducts a survey of sites providing social metadata services, provides an analysis of survey results completed by site managers, and makes recommendations on social metadata features most relevant to LAMs.